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' objects only to mud slung at the Queen dnd her family, one suspects that-hav- ing served in the front ranks as a royal now for thirty years-he feels fairly strongly about the Crown, and wouldn't modernize away some of the trappings that compensate for an arduous lifetime job. The Queen has no surname; royalty and roya] princes and princesses do not need one. But she has thought about the needs of non- princely descendants she and Philip may have, and, in the process, has nice- ly acknowledged her husband by changing the family name from Wind- sor to Mountbatten-Windsor. Perhaps because of the surrounding grandeur and ceremony, the Roya] Family is very fond of knockabout slapstick. Prince Charles, wearing a Guardsman's bearskin, is to be glimpsed gooning around the Palace; his talents as a farceur were also seen on the stage at Cambridge when he was a student there. Encouraged by Prince Philip, levity occasionally blossoms in the Palace offices. Commander Michae] Parker, Philip's former equerry, was once heard barking at the door. "What are you, Parker?" came the question. "I'm the Privy Seal, sir" was the reply. The Queen's talent as a mimic has been brought out by her family-though not so far out that any of them will say, risking offense, whom she mimics. Early on in their marriage, the Queen and her husband gave a reception for some art experts, to show them a collection of modern works the couple had just bought.. One pundit went from painting to painting dec]aring how wonderful they were, and the Queen compas- sionately stopped him as he launched into a rave about a picture Philip had thrown in, for fun, by a chImpanzee. The Royal Family sees a lot of people trying hard to be uncharacteristically dignified and solemn, and consequently often making fools of themselves. It gives the family a form of shoptalk or professional humor. Sometimes they find it hard to keep a straight face, and on some occasions, like the wedding of Princess Alexandra to Angus Ogi]vy, PhilIp pulls funny faces, which makes it all the harder. The Queen's son Charles has never been in any doubt as to what, barring a republican upheaval or an act of God, he was going to be when he grew up. (His names are Charles Philip Arthur George, and he may pick any of them, . . or any other, for his name as King. George VI was Bertie to his family. Edward VIII was David. So Britain may yet have another Arthur, once and future king.) Charles has also had, thanks to his parents, the best educa- tion given any British heir to the throne in several generations. Although some Britons wish the roya] children had gone for a while to everyday schools-say, state prImary schools, like most British children-they have, un- like their mother and her parents, at least gone to school (even if expensive boarding establishments) with other children. Because the further education of their oldest son seemed not only a family but a national matter, the Queen and Prince Philip gave a din- ner in 1965 to which they invited the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Uncle Dickie Mount- batten, the Dean of Windsor, and the Chairman of the Committee of Vice- Chancellors. Consequently, Charles spent some time in Australia and at a Welsh university and went to Cam- bridge for three years before becoming a naval officer-following in that re- spect his father, his grandfather George VI, and his great-grandfather George V. (On the first night of his reign, George VI confided to Lord Louis Mountbatten that he felt absolutely un- prepared for the job. "I'm only a naval officer," he said. Mountbatten told him that George V, his father, had said the same thing to Mountbatten's own fa- ther when George's older brother, Al- bert Victor, dIed and left George heir to the throne. Mount- ba tten ' s fat her had responded, "George, you're wrong. There IS no more fitting prepa- ration for a king than to have been trained In the Navy.") Charles is also a pIlot and para- chutist, and recently helped make an often funny film about his aeronautIcal activities. Although one can Imagine his mother saying, "Charles, I do wish you wouldn't clown about so much in front of people," she is obviously proud of her personable and very natural son. The Queen, as an excellent horse- woman, IS also proud of the riding abi]ity of her daughter, Anne. She hasn't complained about having to forgo the pleasures of being a grand- mother while Anne rides (and some- times falls) in the top ranks of British horsepeople, and gave her parents some- one in the family to cheer for at the